STUDY PROTOCOL article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Aging and Public Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1615837
Fall Prevention Interventions for Hispanic/Latino Older Adults: A Scoping Review Protocol
Provisionally accepted
- University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States
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Background. Despite the importance of fall prevention among older adults, limited research exists on interventions tailored to rapidly growing Hispanic/Latino populations in the United States. This protocol paper outlines the rationale and methods for conducting a scoping review to address this knowledge gap.Methods and analysis. We will follow Arksey and O'Malley's framework and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis extension for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR). This scoping review will be guided by the following research questions: What characterizes fall prevention interventions for Hispanic/Latino older adults? An iterative and systematic search of peer-reviewed publications from four databases (PubMed, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and CINAHL) will be extracted and uploaded to Covidence for screening.Ethics and dissemination. This study involved no human participants and will utilize data from previously published articles. An exemption from review was received from the University of Central Florida (STUDY00007458)Trial registration. This scoping review protocol has been registered with Open Science Framework and can be accessed at https://osf.io/zx3m8
Keywords: Hispanic/Latino, older adults, Fall prevention, Interventions, United States
Received: 21 Apr 2025; Accepted: 17 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Lopez, Dino, Banarjee and Thiamwong. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Janet Lopez, University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States
Chitra Banarjee, University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States
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